Railway cattle guard



April 17, 1928. 1,666,348

c. D. PRUETT ET AL RAILWAY CATTLE GUARD Filed Oct. 18, 1927 V YEA/TOPS Patented Apr. 17, 1928.

UNITED, sures PATENT OFFlC E'trfl cun'rrs n. PRUET 'I, or DALIiAS, AnnwILLIAM KannRnasoHKA, or TROUYP, TEX S.

RAILWAY CATTLE GUARD.

Application fi led October 18, 1927. Serial N0. 226,924.

This invention relates -to railway cattle guards, and refers more particularly to such a device having for its objects as follows:

First, the prevention of access of livestock to the rights of way of railways;

Second, to provide such a device which is so constructed that the railway roadbed at the point where the device is located may be maintained without disturbing in any way or removing any part of the device.

Third, to provide a device which may be built on location from scrap material in combination with specially sawed ties.

Guards now in common use must be removed to properly tamp ties on the roadbed. Also, those which have been most successful from point of maintenance heretofore, are of necessity, manufactured and shipped to the point of location, at an expense far in excess of the expense attendant on the construction of this device. Tlierefore,the advantage of our device over others now in use is briefly: first, inexpensive construction, second, low cost of maintenance on location where used,-third, this device may be constructed and placed by the bridge or section gang regularly employed adjacent the said location, without additional skilled labor being necessary, fourth, this device has been proven an absolute guard in preventing entrance of livestock to the right of way.

In the course of the following description taken in connection with the annexed drawings, these objects and advantages are clearly elaborated on. 4

Figure 1 is a plan View of a pair of guards at the intersection of the railway and highway.

Figure 2 is a perspective View of one of the guard units. I

Figure 3 is a cross section on lines 33 in Figure 2.

Continuing the description, in Figure 1, the rails 1-1 are shown passing over the pair of guards with the highway 2 between them. The right of way fence 33 is shown, being continued across the railway by the guard device, the wings 44, such as are in common use, extend diagonally downward from the fence to the device. A number of sawed nine foot track ties 5-5 each seven inches wide and nine inches deep are provided and. have their ends spaced and racedby spacer member6 bolted thereon by screw bolts 7-7. On the ties between the rails and from the spacer member to the rail are secured triangular strips .88 extending to a point on a level or slightly be,- low the lower edge of the ball forming the top of the rail.

At spaced intervals between the ties, as shownin Figures 1, 2, and 3, are placed members 9- at an acute angle, in such a manner, that the parallel planes of the members, placed from the center of the roadbed between the rails to one extremity of the tie assembly, is angularly disposed with relation to the parallel planes of the members on the opposite side of the roadbed.

Between and abutting against each adjacent pair of said members, hereafter called trip members are secured strips 1010 to the ties. struction, hereafter are referred to as brace members.

In use, when livestock attempts to cross over the guard, the trip' members cause them to slip and they will abandon the attempt. This device may be made of any suitable material, but should present on the upper or exposed faces of the members a non-corrosive metal, to avoid excessive upkeep and to render it fire proof.

What we claim is:

1. In a railway livestock guard, in com bination with a plurality of railway ties, of spacer members secured to the adjacent ends of the ties, of trip members angularly disposed between adjacent ties, and having braces therebetween, the trip members over one half side of the road bed being in parallel planes, and those on the other half, being in parallel planes, the planes of the trip members on the first half being angularly disposed with respect to the planes of those members over the second half of the. roadbed, and a plurality of triangular strips in full clearance of the rails and covering thev tops of said ties, the tops of said trip members and said triangular strips being upon a plane one with the other.

2. A railway livestock'guard, in combination with the rails and ties of a railway, comprised of a plurality of angularly disposed members secured between the said ties, the said members on one side of the roadbed being in a parallel plane one with the other, the said members on the other side of the roadbed adapted to slopeat an angle opposite to the angle of slope of the first group of said members, triangular strips adapted to be secured to the tops of the ties, and

These brace and solidify the conhaving their upper edges on a level With the tops of the angularly disposed members, and spaced members adapted to be secured to the adjacent ends of the ties.

3. In a livestock guard for railways, a

plurality of members diagonally disposed disposed to the planes of the first halliof the members, the last half of the members being upon the second half of the roadbed, spacer members to bind and space the ties, and a triangular cover for each of the tie upper surfaces, the tops of the tie covers and the diagonally disposed members being in one plane.

In testimony whereof, We have signed our names to this specification.

CURTIS D. PRUETT.

WVILLIAM KADERNASCHKA. 

